bold as brass

Idioms  

1. Shameless, audacious, impudent. For example, No one had invited her to the wedding, but she showed up at the church, bold as brass. This alliterative simile plays on brass meaning “shamelessness.” [c. 1700]

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Example Sentences

“As long as I remember,” he says, looking directly at the camera, bold as brass, “I wanted to be someone else. Someone who was acceptable.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2023

There you are with your comrades, every month, bold as brass, unapologetically coming to do your disruptive thing to me and my sisters and we don’t breathe a word.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2019

Far from being scared, these artists are bold as brass.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2014

Yonder they came, eight men of England's navy and that same young duke that married the king's daughter, strolling bold as brass into free Eire.

From Time Magazine Archive

And making his way over with him, bold as brass, was Cook.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook